Magnus to Mass., with Jamestown Jaunt, Return day

Tuesday, September 2

The slide-out managed to crack and croak its way in, far enough that we could travel. What a horrible design that is!  Ed thinks it broke because he hadn’t been lubing it, on account of the Lippert manual saying that those slide-out mechanisms didn’t need to be lubed. But he has it on good faith from an RV repair expert that no, that is wrong. They do need to be lubed and if you don’t, a big repair bill is in order.

So we will see.

I’m hoping the rest of the trip will hold little of the *adventure* we’ve been having all along. No more losing the routes; squeezing up hills and down narrow roads; bashing the side mirror; having the water heater break on Day 1; bashing my little toe on Day 1 and battling pain ever since; loose dog in campground; hearing the large slide-out rack slowly tear itself up; taking a wrong exit and having to wait for a train and then still missing the driveway into the truck stop; having to back out of a parking space at a rest stop. Or any other adventures.

 

NOTES

1.    On long trips set a max miles deviation from the route, and stick to it.  Maybe 10 miles is a good limit.

2.    Go ahead and pack all the non-perishable foods that will be needed for the whole trip. There’s plenty of room and it’s a pain in the butt to have to shop for them halfway. I’m thinking things like iced tea, soda, popcorn, candy bars. In other words, the junk food.

 Good-bye little fuzzies!